Curtain
דֹּקStrong’s H1852doq
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Doq is the Hebrew word usually translated “like curtain”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:”
Meaning
- Veil, curtain
How it's translated
- like curtain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
דֹּק doq · curtain
veil, curtain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “curtain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURTAIN, noun
[Low Latin, in fortification. This word may be from the root of court, and from the sense of separating.]
- A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may be contracted, spread or drawn aside at pleasure; intended for ornament, or for use.
- A cloth-hanging used in theaters, to conceal the stage from the spectators.
- In fortification, that part of the rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions, bordered with a parapet five feet high, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat.
- In scripture, tents; dwellings. Habakkuk 3:7
All definitions and other forms of “curtain”
CURTAIN, verb transitive
To inclose with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.